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VMWare's $9.4bn success

Cisco today joined Intel in buying a stake in virtualization vendor VMWare. The networking giant paid $150m for 1.6 per cent of VMWare's stock.

Intel earlier this month shelled out $218.5m for a 2.5 per cent stake in the company. The chipmaker got a better deal, paying $87.4m per percentage point relative to Cisco's $93.75m per percentage point.